Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-02-23
TIE TRUE CHARACTER OF TOBACCO.

same by appropriate legislation.
THE TRUE CHARACTER OF TOBACCO.
Of all ills, none are SO frequent and
painful as the melancholy and n.y.
pochondria which Tobacco induces.
Almost daily | am consulted by
young men, who, with sad faces and
distressed minds, assure me they are
in bad health. and victims to what
ever disease happens to impress their
imaginations. For a long time |
found no reason for SO many having
such absurd alarms. | understood
not why youths who were the pic
ture of health should labor under
nervousness, and allow.as many i'm
aginary maggots into their heads as
an old isolated spinster. At length
began TO put the question, "Do you
smoker" when almost invariably I
was answered in the affirmative |
have since, always with satisfaction
to myself, seen not rs through a glass
darkly, but viewed the patients
weak point eye to eye. ] at first
said "Smoke in moderation, "but I
now say, "Give up smoking entire
~" Lord Derby, when offered wine
that was to cure his govt, in making
the selection, said, 81 prefer the
govt" Many of such patients will
rather continue the tobacco than be
cured Of their ills; others illogically
say, . | cam. stop smoking. and |
wish another cure" Ofcourse. moth
ing short of Popish indulgence could
cure any ailment without the re-
moval Of the cause. With unming-
led satisfaction l have had patients,
however, no longer-who have re-
turned to me and thanked me for
having induced them to stop smok-
ing. The assurances of some have
been as wondrous as any in Hollo-
ways advertisements I am another
man, nsays one. " / have saved
some pounds, and now enjoy perfect
health" says another. | earnestly
ask all young men, when nervous
and full Of notions regarding theil
health-nay, when they actually
know they are we.l-to discard To.
bacco. Let them not rush to this
book, read this advertisement and
that, consult this doctor and that
doctor, take this drug and that drug
but throw the pipe to the winds. They
will never get advice cheaper, nol
find advice SO proftable-alike to
pursue, person and mind The pipe
has peen facetiously called a burnt
offering. Let them cast aside the old
dispensation, let them adopt the new
No sacrifice is nobler than self-denial,
No sacrifice is more acceptable to
God. None more creditable to a
The rising generation ought es.
pecially to he shielded from the
present intolerable temptations tc
which they are exposed. "Like faith.
er like son is a proverb too true.
For a father with apipe in his mouth
to scold a boy for having one, is the
height Of inconsistency but a scene Of
every day occurrence Silly father
know you not the son is wrongly
abused-that he is simply adopting
the law of imitation? You are the
one that deserves the punishment,
You are the slave Of a baneful weed.
Your son is merely adopting your
habit, thinking it manly. In short,
his motives are oft commendable.
Quickly the son finds that the father
INDUCES in vices allowable to adults
but punishable to him. What is
the consequence? Why, the instill.
ment into the youth of detestations
for his fathers inconsistent code O.
domestic laws, and the temptation
on the part of the boy to peform by
stealth what he was punished fol
doing openly. Stolen tobacco is
sweet, and the pipe smoked in secret
pleasant. The boy soon discovers
means Of helping himself out of his
fathers store again and again, until
he learns not only to smoke but tc
be cunning and roguish. If fathers
smoke, let them be honest and open,
let US have none of these haneful
illogical distinctions by which, to
parody a couplet-
what in the father is a worthy act,
Is III the son a downright sin"
Aati- Toblucco Journal.
Hogs were selling on Il streets
Monday for 81 30 per hundred.